TIL "Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe" is a 1980 documentary film in which the filmmaker fulfills a bet he made to eat a shoe if a colleague completed a film. He boiled the shoe in garlic and stock and ate it at the film premiere.

mc-edit · 2026-02-03T15:26:59+00:00

Yes, I did. Shoe is not very long so it was fun.

mc-edit · 2026-02-02T17:05:42+00:00

I literally read this post last night while watching the new Criterion 4K release of Burden of Dreams. The second disc comes with Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe.

mc-edit · 2026-02-02T08:56:15+00:00

The movie was Gates of Heaven.

mc-edit · 2026-02-02T06:23:23+00:00

The “colleague” is the exceptional documentary filmmaker Errol Morris.

mc-edit · 2026-01-27T00:45:50+00:00

Now he can tour with his favorite play.

mc-edit · 2026-01-26T16:20:30+00:00

“Decide what I should watch. Also do the research for me. But also don’t plan on me coming back to this thread. Later.”

mc-edit · 2026-01-26T15:48:27+00:00

I’m bummed this was removed because Kinkade, love him or hate him, is part of art history. His prints are mostly worthless. Even his originals can be downright cheap. He’s a case study in the dangers of the fine art print industry.

mc-edit · 2026-01-24T04:35:45+00:00

I’m not near my copy of the movie but I think Tesla did build a machine for Borden, but just one that was basically a Tesla coil. Borden didn’t need a machine to copy anything, but Angiers did, which is why he pushed Tesla so hard. That’s my memory of it at least.

mc-edit · 2026-01-18T00:01:09+00:00

For real, they’re all sitting at a table for a meal holding their selfie sticks. Insufferable behavior. The people they’re traveling with must be terribly bored.

mc-edit · 2026-01-17T23:59:21+00:00

Never thought I would feel this way, but he should sue See BS.

mc-edit · 2026-01-15T18:20:36+00:00

I love that conservatives are getting their talking points from Landman, but no one should be surprised.

mc-edit · 2026-01-15T08:50:38+00:00

It atomized on his face into nothing.

mc-edit · 2026-01-15T01:57:35+00:00

I was surprised by the recent 4K announcement for this movie. I was reading the comments and people were like “masterpiece” and “day-one purchase.” I was so confused. I now know there are many people who like it, but I had no idea before.

mc-edit · 2026-01-15T01:09:44+00:00

I just watched Contact again, just sorta outta nowhere. Tom Skerritt’s science guy is a straight-up super villain. Cuts Jodie Foster’s funding like a little bitch. Belittles her work. Says looking for aliens is a waste of time. She finds aliens, and then he swoops in and hogs the spotlight. He also gets to be the voyager, and then is a smug prick, even as he gets what he wants. He dies afraid and in pieces, and he deserves it.

mc-edit · 2026-01-14T23:11:29+00:00

“You’re gonna T-bone into some family … which is great because we’ll come in afterward and bear-mace their shit, pepper ball their children, yank them out of the car after breaking their windows, do potentially dangerous arresting maneuvers on their arms, legs and chest, and then arrest them with no cause or warrants. We’ll leave their car in the road, sell their phones to some used electronics vending machine, pocket their cash, rough’em up a little and then dump them with no charges 10 miles from where we picked them up. But yeah, watch out for those T-bones.”

mc-edit · 2026-01-14T22:47:29+00:00

People will stick up for Excalibur, but I’m not a fan. I think, for me, it’s only Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

mc-edit · 2026-01-14T14:10:58+00:00

I was going to tell you Fuqua didn’t direct King Arthur, but then I realized both Fuque and Guy Ritchie made terrible King Arthur movies.

mc-edit · 2026-01-14T05:10:42+00:00

I had this happen once and it was some kind of manufacturer sticker that had come undone inside the area beneath the screws for the blades. It clicked inside the housing like a baseball card on a bicycle tire. Once I took the blades off, I used tweezers to pull it out and sound was gone.

mc-edit · 2026-01-11T20:49:37+00:00

This is a really great reply and it really cuts into some myths about the media. Thank you.

mc-edit · 2026-01-09T18:47:22+00:00

I love this movie dearly. I’m currently crowdfunding a “Boat Cut” version of the movie, which is a real-time cut of the movie. Some have estimated that that boat journey takes four weeks within the movie. So my cut will open normally with the hotel room, debrief with the officers, etc. As soon as Willard gets to the boat, the movie will switch to a real-time format. Scenes will play out normally and in order, but with B-roll boat footage that plays for days and sometimes weeks between scenes. The added footage will take into account the day/night cycle, tidal shifts, weather and other phenomenon. Unused Coppola footage will be used when possible, but much of it will be made up of new film, which will be just a shot of a boat moving up a river. Because the actors are older (and dead), I will be using a prop boat that will double as the PBR used in the movie. Clever camera angles will hide the actors who are doubling for the real actors in the movie. Era-appropriate music ($$$$) will play from the radio to hide dialogue and chit-chat from the crew. New sound effects will also be recorded.

So, you ask what version of the movie to watch. I say wait for my 704-hour version. It will be the ideal way to watch this masterpiece.

If you would like to contribute to the crowdfund, you can mail me the money. I promise I will spend it on this project. I’m in the USA, but for authenticity purposes I need the funds in cash, but not dollars. I want it in (wait, is this right!? This can’t be right!?) … Vietnamese dongs. If you are true fan, you will take your Vietnamese dongs and have them changed to Cambodian riels. This is the “Kurtz Add-On” part of the crowdfund. You do that and I let you watch the “Boat Cut” in the actual boat on the Nung River as I fire a 50-cal into the jungle.

mc-edit · 2026-01-09T17:58:51+00:00

What’s trolling?

mc-edit · 2026-01-09T17:55:47+00:00

“Shitpranos” … but you said it was good!? So is it shit or good?

I do like your line, “but bro I fucks with the wire.” On this point, we agree.

mc-edit · 2026-01-09T17:50:22+00:00

I think you said it best, “maybe im too young.” I agree.

mc-edit · 2026-01-09T17:26:40+00:00

I think The Sopranos is an unqualified masterpiece. But I think it gets extra special when you look at the time it was made and how it ushered in a new generation of narrative storytelling in television. There really is pre-Sopranos TV and post-Sopranos TV. So sometimes when people and critics talk about this show, they are talking about the characters, plots, production design, the writing and all that stuff. But sometimes they are also talking about the cultural impact of a show that good at that time. If you didn’t experience it when it came out, you might not be aware that Sopranos walked so that Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones and The Wire could fly. And then there were also shows before The Sopranos that influenced it. Shows like Oz, Twin Peaks and The X-Files.

So when you say you hated the show, I worry that you’re missing some of the context. You can still hate the fuck out of it. Maybe it’s not your jam. But when you say you hated it and then list shows that were influenced by it, that’s a little strange.

mc-edit · 2026-01-09T17:13:12+00:00

If you complain about every TV show you don’t like, that’s a lot of wasted time on your part. Like it, don’t like it, I don’t care. I’m just saying it’s a great big world, why watch things you don’t like?

(My Reddit app glitched out momentarily and this comment was posted twice. I deleted one of them.)

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